Skirt hanger



Aug. 4, 1959 J. B. JENSON SKIRT HANGER Filed Aug. 26, 1957 Jews 8. Jensan INVENTOR.

2,898,024 SKIRT HANGER Jens B. Jenson, Fargo, N. Dak. Application August 26, 1957, Serial No. 680,274 3 Claims. (Cl. 223-91) garments such as skirts or the like, which device is in the form of an attachment for a wire-type coat hanger.

An object of the present invention is to provide a skirt hanger for attachment to a wire-type coat hanger incorporating means for frictionally hanging a skirt or similar garment, the weight of the suspended article acting to increase the gripping action of the member which frictionally engages the object.

A further object of the present invention is to provide Yet another important feature of the present invention is to provide a skirt hanger which is simple in construction, easy to attach to a wire coat hanger and relatively inexpensive to manufacture.

partial perspective view of the conbeing designated by the numeral 18.

Mounted on the wire coat hanger small bight portion 26, the legs 22 and 24 being disposed in closely spaced parallel relation for a portion of their length. The leg 24 is provided With terminates in a pair of lugs 34 forming hinge pintles for hingedly supporting a clamp member 36 2,898,024 Patented Aug. 4, 1959 which also has a hinge pintle forming lug 38 thereon for The clamp member 36 is tron 28 of the leg 24.

The inner surfaces of the legs 22 and 24 are provided with a rubber covering 44 for grippingly engaging the bottom member 16 and parallel portions 18 of the coat hanger 10. Also, the clamp member 36 is covered with a felt covering 46 while the co-acting bowed portion 28 is also covered with felt as indicated by Figures 3 and 4 illustrate an alternative method of applying the attachments 20 to the bottom 16 of a coat hanger, the attachment 20" having a pair of bowed legs 52 and 54 joined together by a bight portion 56. 52 has an inwardly bent portion 58 and the leg a matching inwardly bent portion 60. The inwardly bent portion 58 is provided with lugs 62 terminating in hoo -shaped elements tachably and resiliently securing the attachment 20' to the bottom member 16 of the coat hanger. It is pointed out that the attachments 20 and 20 could be employed of the skirt or article to be supported.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention.

Further, since numerous of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A hanger for skirts comprising a wire coat hanger having at least one horizontal wire, a pair of U-shaped 2. The combination of claim 1, wherein the free end of the clamp member and the inner surface of the other leg is covered with a friction increasing material thereby increasing the gripping action on the skirt.

3. A garment hanging attachment for wire coat hangers, said attachment comprising an inverted substantially U- 3 1 shaped member including a pair of legs and a bight por- References Cited in the file of this patent tion connecting upper ends of said legs logether, mea ns UNITED STATES PATENTS provided on the lower end portions of said legs for gnpping a garment therebetween, and a pair of spaced 900,625 Wauls 1908 hook-shaped elements provided on one of said legs ad- 5 2376584 Dessm'ea May 1945 iacent said bight portion, said hook-shaped elements ex- 2,401,413 Colwen June 4, 1946 tending beyond the other leg and being adapted to engage 5 J 'w' at han e w'th a'd 0th le ada ted t r s'l'- 1 a ca a g r 1 S 1 g p 6 11 2,811,292 Neudecker et al Oct. 29, 1957 ently urge the wire coat hanger into engagement with said hook-shaped elements. 10 

